Character is perfectly educated will.
NOVALISHumanity is a comic role.
More Novalis Quotes
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Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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